5 Reasons to Skip Black Friday Sales

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martring of PA 11:54AM February 06, 2013

The deals in black Friday are really surprising. The best deals are only available to a few people. Definitely because all are not doing the best thing. After finishing the black Friday, many discounts are going on. Well post.

Online Shopping of MA 12:59AM June 07, 2012

yes , black friday is a big hype that bait people in . Stores know you will buy more than what you went after in the first place. It's like Henny Penny wih the sky is falling mentality. If you need it bad enough, it will be there the next week [maybe a few dollars higher] but still yet, you can buy without the frenzy and if it is too high and you can't afford it, you don't need it in the first place. Live within your means!! The Jones will always be with us no matter what the price, so no need to try and keep up with them. Of course, I for one am not a materialistic person, and if you want the high of Black Friday, then go for it. It's your life and your money:)))))

karen crislip of WV 3:13PM November 25, 2011

And China's economy just keeps growing and growing, and where are the jobs in America, THEY ARE IN CHINA - - and when people flock to the stores like this they support our jobs being outsourced...and NOBODY in the American lower and middle class will benefit from black Friday...
It is about big impersonal (Treat their lower class employees like crap) getting into the black, but black Friday is also about - GETTING the lower and middle class deeper and deeper into the RED - - debt to credit card companies - - it's at least a triple whammy - (1) you go out and directly support big corporations, retailers, at the expense of local businesses and restaurants....(2) you directly support the outsourcing of all American manufacturing jobs (3) and finally you put yourself into more personal debt...
and all for what - - some cheap, Chinese, tainted (look it up online tainted Chinese products) plastic crap, that has nothing to do with the best part of the holidays, Christmas (Birth of Christ? Anyone?) - and this junk, neither you nor the people you buy it for will give a crap about it after, I'd say 5 days...
Quintuple (It's a word) whammy - (4) the pollution generated by supporting the plastic behemoth that is China (5) you directly put the health of whoever you are buying this tainted crap for at risk, your kids could develop serious problems from handling many Chinese toys...
Enjoy the holidays, go fishing, go bowling, go hiking, bake with your kids, make crafts with your kids, go to museums, go see a play, read a book, go ice skating, go ride horses, BUY LOCAL - BUY AMERICAN - there are a million things to do - Don't support China to the downfall of America....
Go enjoy these with your family...learn something, enjoy the holidays, but the holidays have nothing to do with being pressured by the media, and your own emptiness and boredom to go buy a bunch of junky, tainted, plastic crap, that is ruining our environment...
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TerrorStorm - 9-11 In Plane Sight - Loose Change - Sir, No Sir! - Winter Soldier - Hearts and Minds - White Light, Black Rain - The Panama Deception - The End of Poverty - GasHole - Who Killed The Electric Car
Movies - for fun
Trading Places - Harold and Maude - Watchmen - Hellboy - KickAss - Four Lions - V For Vendetta - Sweet and Low Down - Hot Fuzz - Eagle Vs. Shark - Black Dynamite - Being

tom of GA 1:03PM November 25, 2011

Yes, they seem to concentrate on we don't have, not on what we already have in abundance. Mix messages are sent to the public, for one, it's save money and get out of debt, pay cash for only things you need. Then they also push, buy, buy and buy! Use those credit cards. We are almost out of debt, our house is paid for, our older cars are paid for and we are now paying off our credit cards, we don't use them anymore.

Karen of IL 1:03PM November 25, 2011

I agree that Black Friday this year totally over shadowed Thanksgiving and I was deeply concerned by all the many credit card commercials that have been running...this will only lead to another round of recession woes. I was disgusted by the amount of ads and coupons only good for this weekend. It was a disgusting waste of paper. You wrote a great article but left out left out the one thing many of us who do not use Christmas as our only excuse to give our kid a toy or use Black Friday as our only time to shop for deals, instead we decorate our homes for Christmas. Hang lights, visit family and seek out enrichment through museums, and festivals. Americans need desperately to figure out there is more to life then just buying more crap you don't need.

Mary Blickhahn of CO 11:29AM November 25, 2011

I totally agree! Don't like that this year felt like Black Friday was almost overshadowing "Thanksgiving". Insted of being thankful for what we do have we are forced to think about what we "need" and to get it now!!

Mrs. Jones of IN 11:02AM November 25, 2011